Cantonments Act,1924
Act No : 2
Section : POWERS OF ENTRY AND SEIZURE
SECTION 215: POWERS OF ENTRY AND SEIZURE
- (1) The President or the Vice-Presidenta[* * *] the Executive Officer, the Health Officer, the Assistant Health Officer, or any other officer or servant of ab[Board] authorised by it in writing in this behalf,-
(a) may at any time enter into any market, building, shop, stall or other place in the cantonment for the purpose of inspecting, and may inspect, any animals, articles or things intended for human food or drink or for medicine, whether exposed or hawked about for sale or deposited in or brought to any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, or any utensil or vessel for preparing, manufacturing or containing any such article, or thing, and may enter into and inspect any place used as a slaughter- house and may examine any animal or article therein;
(b) may seize any such animal, article or thing which appears to him to be diseased, or unwholesome or unfit for human food or drink or medicine, as the case may be, or to be adulterated or to be not what it is represented to be, or any such utensil or vessel which is of such a kind or in such a state as to render any article prepared, manufactured of contained therein unwholesome or unfit for human food or for medicine, as the case may be.
(2) Any article seized under sub-section (1) which is of a perishable nature may, under the orders of the Health Officer or the Assistarnt Health Officer, forthwith be destroyed if, in his opinion, it is diseased, unwholesome or unfit for human food, drink of medicine, as the case may be.
(3) Every animal, article, utensil, vessel or other thing seized under sub-section (1) shall, if it is not destroyed under sub-section (2). be taken before a Magistratec[who shall give orders as to its disposal].
(4) The owner or person in possession, at the time of seizure under sub-section (1) of any animal or carcase which is diseased or of any article or thing which is unwholesome or unfit for human food, drink, or medicine, as the case may be, or is adulterated or is not what it is represented to be, or of any utensil or vessel which is of such kind or in such state as is described in clause (b) of sub-section (1), shall be punishable with fine which may extend tod[five hundred rupees], and the animal, article, utensil, vessel or other thing shall be liable to be forfeited to theb[Board] or to be destroyed or to be so disposed of as to prevent its being exposed for sale or used for the preparation of food, drink or medicine, as the case may be.
(a) such substance has been added to the article because the same is required for the preparation or production thereof as an article of commerce in a state fit for carriage or consumption and not fraudulently to increase the bulk. weight or measure of the food or drink or conceal the inferior quality thereof, or
(b) in the process of production, preparation or conveyance of such article of food or drink. The extraneous substance has unavoidably become intermixed therewith, or
(c) the owner or person in possession of the article has given sufficient notice by means of a label distinctly and legibly written or printed thsreon or therewith, or by other means of a public description, that such substance has been added, or
(d) such owner or person has purchased the article with a written warranty that it was of a certain nature, substance and quality and had no reason to believe that it was not of such nature, substance and quality, and has exposed it or hawked it about or brought it for sale in the same stale and by the sme description as that in and by which hi purchased it.
